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title: Outlining a model
---

<p>
    Expanding a model's path will surround every path, which sometimes can mean there is an inner and an outer surrounding chain. If you only want the outer surrounding chain, use
    <a href="/docs/api/modules/makerjs.model.html#outline">makerjs.model.outline</a>:
</p>

{% highlight javascript %}
//outline a star model

var m = require('makerjs');

var star = m.model.rotate(new m.models.Star(5, 100), 18);
var outline = m.model.outline(star, 10);

var model = {
    models: {
        star: star,
        outline: outline
    }
};

var svg = m.exporter.toSVG(model);

document.write(svg);

{% endhighlight %}

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